Bits from the meetup: automated tracking of computer activity, CureTogether.com for aggregated health self-reporting of conditions and treatments, and the oddly popular desire for a statistical silver bullet that will crunch your data and tell you what’s potentially interesting about you, instead of you coming up with questions and designing proper experiments. This makes me think about t-tests and how you can do too many tests for significance (PDF). Intentional experiments may be slower, but I think they’re worth it.

Nice to see you posted this already. It really came out quite clearly. I’m not sure how you got my name as Claudio…maybe I look more Italian than I thought(?). But thanks – the portrait is actually pretty good.